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March 17, 2009 Rosalio Reta has claimed to police that he killed 30 people. PDF downloads of all 1699 LitCharts literature guides, and of every new one we publish. Reta and Cardona were paid a $500 retainer each week. When orders from cartel leaders came, the men would begin hunting their prey. Assistant District Attorney Jesse Guillen said the trial in the second case against Reta would likely start soon and would give authorities another chance to add time to the teen's prison sentence. Sergio Rodrigues Rosalio Reta is a former Zeta Cartel hitman whom Hari visits at the Texas prison where he is currently serving a 70-year sentence for several murders. US-born Jimenez Lugo was convicted at age 14 for working as a hitman for a Mexican drug gang, the South Pacific drug cartel. As '24 nears, FL Gov. Reta's first kill was at 13 years old. But the kind of mischief Reta would get up to in his young life couldn't be more different from the cartoon kid's boyish pranks. Reta didn&#8217 Alleged hitman Rosalio "Bart" Reta, 17, has pleaded guilty to muirder. Michael Stravato for The New York Times It was the ease with which the boys could cross back and forth across the border that made them valuable to the Mexican Zetas drug cartel. 1 most stressful city for workers in U.S. Turner: State takeover of Houston ISD could happen as soon as next week, Houston rap royalty Bun B on returning to Rodeo for another Takeover, How the Houston Zoo moved its flock of flamingos to a new home, Why the Texans should take Bijan Robinson with the No. . CNN has also obtained detailed court records as well as several hours of police interrogation videos. Watch Anderson Cooper 360 weeknights 8pm ET. 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Reta didnt know who the man was, but it was clear he instilled fear and commanded respect among everyone standing around watching the dramatic scene unfold. 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Forever: This photo taken the year before their arrests reads 'parejas por siempre' - partners forever. Gabriel Cardona and Rosalio 'Bart' (as in Bart Simpson) Reta are American citizens of the border town of Laredo, Texas. Its a violent world.. On a dusty, remote ranch across the Rio Grande from this Texas border town, an intimidating drug lord stood over 13-year-old Rosalio Reta and handed him a gun. Report: Houston is the No. But then there are those eyes tattooed on his eyelids. Reta's face became covered in tattoo markings. At age 13, the Laredo, Texas, native was brought into the notorious Zetas drug cartel across the border in Mexico, where . It was real hard for me. After that, I didnt have no life.. And Cardona responds, "I've heard in Dallas and Houston.". Cardona was also making a name for himself at that time, and impressing the same narco leaders. He grew up one of nine siblings on ramshackle Lincoln St, just blocks away from the Mexican border in Laredo, Texas. That clue unraveled the chilling reality and led police to arrest Gabriel Cardona and Rosalio Reta. Reta killed his first victim at 13 years old, when a drug lord handed him a gun and commanded him to shoot another man. In January 2009, Lopez confessed to disposing more than 300 corpses. Teacher Editions with classroom activities for all 1699 titles we cover. TV . 2023 Cable News Network. The cartel leader looked at Reta and ordered him to shoot and kill a man tied up on the ground. Trevio was in the middle of everything, Reta says of the burnings and torture he witnessed, and soon began to intimidate Reta into doing his ghastly bidding. I couldnt believe what I was seeing. When developing to the teenage years, they had dropped out of school and had become friends with bad influences. They either end up in prison, or its likely their tortured corpse will be left along a blood-soaked path to nowhere in the Mexican countryside. Lopez allegedly worked for Teo, a drug lord from the Tijuana area, and allegedly helped the drug cartel dispose of hundreds of victims by dissolving them in acid. Since 1993, he has been the elected sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. "One thing you wonder all the time: What made them this way?" Reta grew up in Laredo, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border, and joined the Zetas at just 13 years old, after meeting its second-in-command, Miguel Trevio. In a gun battle, in a confrontation, hes the first one to get out of his truck and lead his people. -Graham S. The timeline below shows where the character Rosalio Reta appears in, Chapter 9: Bart Simpson and the Angel of Jurez, drug war. Rosalio Reta is on Facebook. Rosalio Reta and his friend, Gabriel Cardona, were members of a three-person cell of American teenagers working as cartel hit men in the United States, according to prosecutors. On the surface, Gabriel Cardonas eyes belong to a baby face. The teenagers lived in several safe houses around Laredo and drove around town in a $70,000 Mercedes-Benz. It's eating me inside little by little, and there's nothing I can do or say to justify my actions.'. Although Z-40 virtually ruled northern Mexico without fear, as Reta came to know him he began to see Trevino as a regular guy. He was one of the first persons I seen to cut somebodys head off, Reta says of the notoriously bloodthirsty Trevio, who ascended to the top of the violent cartel with acts of spectacular cruelty. Reta has bizarre markings around his eyes; Cardona has drawings of eyeballs tattooed on his eyelids. There, he witnessed his first executions, and he was turned into a child soldier for Los Zetas. ', Solitary: Before he was even at the legal drinking age, Reta was locked up forever in solitary confinement, Marked man: Reta, like Cardona, received prison tattoos after his arrest, the only outward indication of what occurred in his past, Teenage dream: Cardona and Reta were living like regular teenagers before being drawn into a world of murder, drugs and cash. Trevino had built control and protection systems to insulate his organization at every level from law enforcement agencies and politicians. Although he initially commented I like what I do in regards to his career as a hitman, Reta in recent weeks has affected a more remorseful tone: It gets to a point where I cant even stand myself, he says. They each say they lived the life for about three years, Cardona from age 16 to 19; Reta, from age 13 to 16. I learned about drugs, theft, vandalism and fights. LAREDO, Texas On a dusty, remote ranch across the Rio Grande from this Texas border town, an intimidating drug lord stood over 13-year-old Rosalio Reta and handed him a gun. Reta pleaded guilty to two murders and was handed two prison sentences, of 30 and 40 years. (Prosecutors say during his trial Reta used make-up to cover the facial markings.) Now you can hear that account for yourself. It was kind of hard to believe.. Teen Hit Man For Los Zetas Cartel: Rosalio Reta aka Bart Simpson: Johann Hari - YouTube 0:00 / 8:20 #podcast #warondrugs #mafia Teen Hit Man For Los Zetas Cartel: Rosalio Reta aka Bart. The detective sitting across the table from Reta and Cardona in those sessions is Robert Garcia. 4:56 PM EDT, Tue August 6, 2013, a Mexican government security spokesman told reporters in July. 6 Cabo hotels for your spring break vacation, How to score cheap flights (and mistake fares) in 2023, Escape to Long Beach, Washington before the summer crowds, Amazon is having a big sale on Canon cameras and lenses, Score Apple AirPods for under $100 on Amazon today, Stanleys huge water bottle is less than $35 on Amazon, This Costco membership discount puts $30 back in your pocket. I will look you in the eyes while you kill me.'. Investigators say Reta and another American recruit were paid $500 a week on retainer to sit and wait for a call to kill. Given six months of military training in Mexico, he was sent across the border. He doesnt spend a lot of time thinking about the violence he wielded, he said. 12 pick, W&P Porter bowl review: A container that makes office lunch easy, A new musical spotlights a Texas bank-robbing legend. He was only 16. Thats why a lot of people follow him.. Sheriff Joe has built a jail that he refers to publicly as his concentration camp, and presidential candidates flock here during election campaigns, emerging full of praise. Zavala was sentenced to life in prison after killing 16 people at a bar in Chihuahua in 2012. Escajeda is also presumably responsible for the killing of anti-crime activist Benjamin LeBaron. Cardona and Reta could move freely and easily back and forth across the border with Mexico. Reta, now 20, is serving a 70-year sentence after pleading with the DEA for extradition to the U.S. so as to avoid being killed by a rival gang member in prison in Mexico, where he was arrested for a 2006 hit. I never thought that I was going to die in prison.. Rosalio Reta in a Texas state prison in 2009 at age 19. Credit. Gonzalez Duran is allegedly one of the founding members of the Zetas, a group of army deserters who went to work as hitmen for the Gulf drug cartel. "They were just kids themselves, waiting around playing PlayStation or Xbox, waiting around for the order to be given.". Then they were paid up to $50,000 and 2 kilos of cocaine for carrying out a hit. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the. Mexican and United States law enforcement agencies accuse Trevino of killing hundreds of people while laundering hundreds of millions of dollars. Reta and other teenagers were groomed and made to carry out assassinations on both sides of the border. It was kind of hard to believe.'. Creating notes and highlights requires a free LitCharts account. What's on TV & Streaming Top 250 TV Shows Most Popular TV Shows Browse TV Shows by Genre TV News India TV Spotlight. A teenager accused of being a hit man for a drug cartel pleaded guilty to murder Thursday, abruptly ending a trial that exposed the cartel's workings in the U.S. and Mexico. By 19, he was locked in a Texas prison in solitary confinement, facing 70 years jail for murder. Just hours before they were arrested, federal authorities taped a phone conversation between them in which Cardona brags about killing 14-year-old Inez Villareal and his cousin, a Cardona rival. Cardona was arrested and pleaded guilty to killing seven men and to conspiracy to kidnap and kill in a foreign country. A Warner Bros. The comments below have not been moderated. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. People getting tortured, killed, decapitated. H/T Gawker | Photo via The I Files/YouTube, Miles Klee is a novelist and web culture reporter. TV Shows. They were paid up to $50,000 and 2 kilos of cocaine for carrying out a hit. Anslinger said addicts were lepers who needed to be quarantined, and so Arpaio has built a leper colony for them in the desert. Reta was trained in a secret camp where he learned how to be a sicario, a hitman. Both Reta and Cardona were born to a families with relatives on both sides of the U.S.-Texas border. Remorseless: Cardona appears unrepentant for his nightmarish crimes. Edgar was convicted in juvenile court in July 2011 of homicide and organized crime charges, and sentenced to three years in custody, the maximum allowed. But investigators started suspecting something more sinister. Reta watched others respond to Trevinos tough leadership. I wasnt living my life.. In an interview with CNN, Reta describes a night when friends took him across the river to Nuevo Laredo. Ive come to regret everything Ive done, Reta said. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. They were torturing people and getting information from them, said Reta. 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